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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Mine got in. [/b]It's where he wants to go. I still can't wrap my head around it being so selective. When I went to college, many decades ago, in VA, if we were top students, we went to go to UVA or W&M.

My kid and his friends are, like so many here, very good students, with 4++ gpas, high SATs, full AP course loads and great extracurriculars. A lot of them won't get into UVA. [b]WTF do you have to do to get into a state college these days. . . .[/quote][/b]

Congrats and I totally understand what you are saying.  I don't think our DD who got into UVA two years ago would get in today.  It's changed that much statistically in just two years.  VT is a great school.  We toured but they were clear you needed at least a 4.0 for engineering.  I still remember a poor woman in the Engineering Day see that figure posted and asked "How does one get a GPA higher than a 4.0?" and the air in the room sucked in.  It's a rat race from beginning to end and a huge learning curve for the parents.  I get irritated when I see ignorant posts about what some cruelly call "the lesser Virginia schools" having no idea the GPAs it now takes to get into GMU, JMU, VT, etc.  For most good students in NoVA, W&M and UVA isn't going to happen.[/quote]

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